Peter, Paul and Mary singer Peter Yarrow is useless after a protracted battle with most cancers … TMZ has confirmed.
Peter died Tuesday at his residence on Manhattan’s Higher West Facet … based on his publicist, Ken Sunshine, who tells us Peter’s reason for dying was bladder most cancers.
We’re informed Peter was recognized with most cancers 4 years in the past, and battled the illness till his dying.
Peter principally offered tenor vocals for the well-known Nineteen Sixties folks trio, however he additionally sang lead vocals for a few of Peter, Paul and Mary’s largest hits … most notably, “Puff The Magic Dragon.”
He co-wrote ‘Puff’ in 1959 when he was learning at Cornell College … and he additionally offered lead vocals on “The Great Mandala” and “Day Is Done,” which cracked the Prime 20 on the Billboard charts.
Peter even turned the timeless youngsters’s track into an image e book for youths.
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The final time we noticed Peter, he informed our photog why ‘Puff’ was by no means a track about drug use and defined how the dragon acquired its well-known identify.
Peter’s the second member of Peter, Paul and Mary to die … Mary Travers died method again in September 2009, and now Paul Stookey is the final surviving member.
Peter was 86.
RIP
